Tips & Trips

Welcome to the February edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Stuart Perkins brings us another positive article about traveling while vegan. This one mentions that the lack of vegan airline meals is a blessing in disguise because in-flight meals are often mediocre and bringing your own food is a much better option.

Welcome to the January edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Fairmont Hotels have introduced some new menu items with choices for people who are looking for gluten free and vegan meals

Shreen Travles Cheap has lots of travel tips for vegetarians. She recommends websites you can use to reach restaurants before you leave, iPhone applications to use when at restaurants and websites to checkout for flight deals.

Welcome to the December edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Vegan Travel Tips

JL from the JL Goes Vegan Blog has been vegan for just under a year and has already figured out how to travel and keep up her new diet and lifestyle. Not only did she visit Barbados and report on her food finds, but she also wrote a great guest post for This Dish is Veg to share her tried and true strategies for the traveling vegan.

Eco-Vegan Gal polled Twitter users on healthy vegan travel snacks ideas for plane travel during the holidays. She has some great ideas that you can use anytime of the year or on any mode of transportation.

When traveling and having limited access to a kitchen, vegans often turn to convenience foods. Leigh from A Vegan Obsession shares some of her favourite vegan convenience foods to pack when traveling.

Speaking of convenience meals, Tasty Bite makes Indian and Thai inspired vegan meals that are great for camping, backpacking or quick dinners at home. All you need is some boiling water. Cristen from Circle our Earth did a review of Tasty Bite after taking their products on a camping trip.

Welcome to the November edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Vegan Travel Tips

VegNews assures us things are looking up for vegans flying during the holiday season. More and more vegan options are popping up in airports, and more airlines are offering vegan and vegetarian meals.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) just released the results of a study that found 82% of major US airport restaurants now offer at least one low-fat, high-fiber, cholesterol-free vegetarian entrée, up from 79% last year.

If you’re nervous about keeping up your healthy vegan lifestyle while traveling for the holidays, check out these 10 tips from the Healthy Voyager.

This month I was introduced to The Veggie Bus, an online resource put together by a bunch of “hardcore vegetarians who are traveling the world (well Asia to start with) seeking the finest (and cheapest) veggie cuisine from China, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.”

Welcome to the October edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Vegan Travel Tips

Many airlines offer specialty meals on long flights but, due to cutbacks, meal options are limited on short trips. I’ve yet to fly with an airline that has a vegan sandwich on their buy-on-board menu. This is why I was super excited to hear about Vegan Pimp‘s experience with Jet Blue. She bought the ShapeUp box, which was full of healthy vegan snacks.

Whether you’re going on a short business trip or visiting friends for the weekend, why not pack your essentials in a stylish and vegan-friendly travel bag? Corrie from Brooklyn Bliss, has created a short list of vegan weekender bags.

Are you a vegan with allergies? If yes, I’d recommend reading the latest post by the Discerning Kitchen, which documents the advanced planning required when traveling as a vegan who also avoids soy, corn, gluten and other major allergens.

Sarah, The Ordinary Vegetarian, also had some recent European eating adventures. This month she wrote about her visit to Spain and Amsterdam, where she found so much awesome vegan food, she had to split up her review into two parts. As if that isn’t exciting enough, she also published a post with tons of photos of the food she enjoyed while in the vegan mecca that is NYC.

We visited Florence, Italy in August, when everything was closed, including all of the city’s vegan and vegetarian restaurants. Our tips (coming soon) will be limited to food we found at “regular” restaurants but EuroCheap has a great article with a roundup of the best places to find veg-friendly fare in the Florence.

Speaking of vegan food in Italy, check out some food porn on the Vegan Around the World blog. The photos were taken by Feather, who has been traveling for several months and most recently touring around Italy.

Polly from Veggywood recently returned from a trip to Asia and posted her first travel recap with lost of pictures and information about her vegan finds in Hong Kong. She’ll be posting more about her trip in coming weeks so stay tuned :)

Welcome to the September edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Vegan Travel Tips

Cooking at hostels is a great way to enjoy healthy meals and save money while traveling. This grocery list of traveling champions is full of good ideas. Just ignore the last paragraph.

You don’t have to stop exercising just because you’re on vacation. Keep up your healthy vegan lifestyle with these travel exercise tips from the Healthy Vegan Recipes blog. Heather and Phil are traveling for a few months and sharing lots of great advice through their travel section (registration required).

Many people like to volunteer during long-term travel. If you’d like to volunteer with an organization that supports vegan ethics, check out this roundup of vegan volunteer vacations by Vegan World Trekker.

Vegan Travel Bloggers

Jennifer from It Ain’t Meat Babe visited New York this month and wrote all about her fabulous food finds. There were so many, she had to split her review into a three part food-o-rama series. One. Two. Three. She also recently traveled to Toronto, a Canadian city with lots of vegan options, where she ate at Fressen and Sadie’s Diner.

Welcome to the August edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

We will be in India in less than two weeks and are looking forward to tasting the local vegan options. A recent article in the Huffington Post talks about how veg options are always available in India. However, the question remains: How many of those veg options are vegan? We will let you know!

Vegan Travel Bloggers

Vegans who are frequently traveling for work will be able to relate to this consultant who has started a blog to document a three month challenge to eat vegan while staying in hotels and traveling from city to city on business.

Te Araroa On Veg is another new vegan travel blog. Starting in November, this brave vegan will set off on the Te Araroa track, a long-distance tramping track in New Zealand that covers around 3000 km and will take him about five to six months to complete.

The Urban Housewife recently moved to Vienna and has given us a peak into her new neighborhood. I’m sure the Vienna food posts are just around the corner. In the meantime, she recapped a recent trip to LA and highlighted some of her favourite places to dine in San Francisco.

Welcome to the July edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Vegan Travel Tips

Before you know it, summer will be behind us. While the weather is good, pack up your car with vegan snacks and hit the road! The Vegan Mom came up with a list of 15 vegan cooler essentials. Her ideas are especially helpful if you’re traveling with some little ones.

JL from JL Goes Vegan also has some advice on what to pack for a summer vacation. But that’s not all! Check out her vacation recipes.

Does the idea of traveling as a vegan stress you out? Karol from Ridiculously Extraordinary offers up some simple and healthy meal ideas for vegan travelers. I don’t agree with his opinion on what to do if you order vegan food that turns out to contain animal products (he says eat it anyway or find someone who will), but there is some good info in his post.

Rather than look around for vegan-friendly restaurants, some vegans prefer to book accommodations with a kitchen and make their own meals when away from home. The Tropical Vegan shared some of her travel meal ideas, like black bean burgers and falafels.

If you’re a raw vegan who likes to travel, be sure to read Natasha’s tips for being raw on the road. She suggests stocking up on homemade trail mixes, dried fruits, seasoned nuts and seeds, and dehydrated crackers. If you’re a green smoothie fan, find out how you can enjoy a green drink in the air, despite airport securities strict liquid restrictions.

China is coming up on our radar and looking like it will be the last stop on our trip. We expect it will be a challenge at times to find vegan food but are encouraged by articles like this one written by an American vegan who finds nirvana in China.Blissfully Vegan also has some restaurant reviews from her recent trip to Beijing.

While in Amsterdam, we had the chance to eat at De Peper, an all vegan and organic restaurant with a pay-what-you-can menu that changes each day. If you want to get a feel for the place, check out this cool video review by Chepoair.

Starting right now, once a month, we will publish Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.

Tips for Vegan Travelers

If you’re planning a road trip this summer, HLife has some advice on what to pack. If your travels involve flying to a different country, their tips for international travel may save you from getting sick while away from home.

Don’t go hungry! GoMet has a round up of their favourite travel snacks.

Traveling to Germany? Rezeptefuchs is a great resource for vegans living in or visiting Germany. It has a huge database of vegan products you can browse through and includes information about where to find each item.

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